>> so i'll leave you with that day american smoke up found out what was going on in that night. president roosevelt gave this breyer. almighty god are sons pride of our nation is de, have set upon a mighty endeavor faris struggled to preserve our republic or religion and our civilization into set three is suffering humanity. lead them straight and true, give them strength to their arms tautness to their hearts steadfastness in their faith they will need night blessings. their road will be long and hard for the enemy is strong. >> he may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return and again and again, and we know that by via grace and by the righteousness of our clause, our sons will try them yeah really remarkable moment can, and actually, i'm so glad that you brought us there. >> thank you for your time today. >> we actually have that prayer

that he offered on that de and we're going to leave you with that. >> this morning. >> mighty god prior to ban this day upset upon a mighty endeavor let's criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our siblings and set free a suffering humanity this morning, we are observing a moment in history at the same time is witnessing and effort to define the future. >> we are standing by to hear from president biden on the 80th anniversary of d-day, the allied landing of the beaches of normandy, june 6, 1944 but

on june 6, 2024, the president will also speak of the alliance fighting russian aggression in ukraine and the threats to democracy around the world. and you can bet for the domestic audience, the president will implicitly overtly described what he feels are the threats to freedom. if donald trump is elected, again, there is a lot of news on the election in front. this morning. a list of potential running mate's for donald trump. they are all given homework assignments, new polling that suggests the shifts in the race since trump's criminal convictions and new information about a helium leak in orbit on the boeing starliner. we're gonna get to at all. but first, as we said, a moment in history past, present, and future, we've got cnn anchors reporters, and analysts from all around the world with us this morning. first, let's a christiane amanpour in normandy. add these commemorations. christiane jon and kate. well, it's an extraordinary atmosphere like it always is when these

veterans get together and this 80th anniversary is the one where everybody knows we may not see this number of survivors anymore because they are in the region of 100-years-old hold i'm sure that's the average age i spoke to one jake las and who stormed onto omaha beach 80 years ago, an amazing person who talked about just the sheer fear. but then having just battled through it and got on with it and managed to get across that beach. we know that it was the greatest amphibious invasion vision in history. it's never been matched. neither before or since. it was a secret. they deceived the nazis. they landed at these five beaches down where we are in normandy than nazis thought by misinformation and disinformation that it was going to be at a different point. nonetheless, there were encampments positions above on these cliffs. that simply mowed down so many of those brave soldiers who came from america, from canada, from the uk, and

just came up and also from poland as well, the free polls came, came on shore as well. and today, we're going to hear from president biden, from president the macro. we're going to see fly overs of the c13 transport planes. we're going to see the air force flyover towards the end. there'll be taps, a number of us veterans will be given the leisure and honore, which is like the presidential medal of honor, so to speak for their service. and it is an incredible moment because as you today perhaps no one ever imagined that that kind of tyranny that the allies liberated europe from the nazi tyranny that they slaughtered 6,000 jews in the holocaust. and so many others around europe in the fighting that people thought was done after world war ii. but now 80 years later, we are in the midst of the first raging massive ground war in europe since that time

and the stakes are massively high as everybody knows, and everybody will be referring to today. >> chris can stick with us is we're looking continue to watch his life pictures in france. we also just saw the us secretary defense lloyd austin take to the stage will be hearing from him as well. kayla, let me bring in on this christiane was talking about that president biden will be speaking commemorating this day and also, we'll be offering a message to folks at home back at home as well. what is that message? >> well he's going to be highlighting common themes for the president, kate service, sacrifice, and the importance of learning from history, which in president biden's words, it can repeat itself we expect them to talk about the mission. the mission on d-day mattered. the mission was a noble one and the mission send that allied countries are fighting around the world right now is also a noble one at home though this

message is going to be received by a war-weary electorate who heard from president biden back in 2020 that he planned to end forever wars like the war in afghanistan, where the us withdrew in 2021, albeit in a chaotic the way. and since then, two new hot wars have begun. the war in ukraine that is now inching toward the three-year mark. and the war between israel and hamas, which while only months-long at this point is still far longer than anyone in the biden administration had expected it to last. and there's frustration among the electorate about how long these wars will continue to i asked and how long the us will continue funding the defenses of these country. there also is expected to be an implicit nod to the future and the risk of isolation depending on the policies that some of these countries may pursue. we don't expect president biden to named donald trump by name either today or tomorrow in his speech from pointe-du-hoc, which is the point over looking at the beaches here that cliffs that

army rangers scale to overtake the german lookout positions. but he is expected to warn what would happen if the us or other countries stepped back from these alliances and what would happen to the world in those cases, we know that congress, in the case of nato, has provided i had some safeguards, some guardrails that would prohibit a future president from withdrawing from nato unilaterally. but that is not to stop a future president from say making nato dormant or a slowing some of the exercises are reducing the troop footprint across europe. so president biden is going to talk at a very high level about the importance of the he's alliances and how important they will be for the future. go amazon ward kayla tausche also at normandy. >> again, you're looking at live picture from the stage. you see the defense secretary lloyd austin, sitting on the right-hand side of it right there aligned behind him are many of the remaining veterans of that day, some 80 years ago, it is worth noting president biden, will almost definitely definitely the last us

president who will be, have been born before d-day june 6, 1944, 50 is the first us president born before d-day since george h w bush, who served obviously with distinction in the pacific in world war ii. want to go to our jim sciutto, or chief national security analyst, who is watching this again this day is to commemorate the past gym, but all around europe, all around the world, the concerns are very much about the now and the future in the threats seen in capitals around the world. what are those threats? >> let's that point that christiana was describing as we'll hear from biden as we are commemorating history today, we are witnessing history underway. another war in europe, another attempt to redraw the borders of europe by four says, as the world rose up against those ads the years ago, it may sound rhetorical, but it's a fact and it is certainly the way those closest to the threat view, the moment

today, the ukrainians certainly view themselves as fighting for their lives and for the existence of their country. and when you speak to eastern europeans, in particular they see the war in ukraine as defining that if russia is allowed to win, there than it doesn't end there again, a test like the world saw in 1939 and 1941 and 1944, that hitler at the time when he started moving east, he didn't stop. he can kept going and the fear in eastern europe is that putin will do the same and that he will take western exhaustion with this war western delays in providing aid to ukraine as a signal that well, he might be able to get away with this again. and by the way, we don't have to look back to 80 years ago go to get those lessons. you look at the russian invasion of georgia in 2008, russia's first invasion of ukraine in 2014. and of

course, again the full-scale invasion in 2022, that is the history playing out before our eyes today. so that connection to the test of the past of world war ii and the test that the us and its allies are facing today is quite a real one, and that's how it is very much viewed in europe, whatever the political debate back here in this country. the other point i would make is this. there is genuine, genuine concern among america's closest allies in europe as to what a real action of donald trump would mean for them, because they listened to what he says about well, a less than fulsome commitment to the nato alliance, to protecting those eastern allies from russian aggression, and to kill us point, while congress has passed measures that would make it harder for a president to unilaterally pull out of nato and alliance and a mutual defense agreement is only as strong as it is believed by us partners and buy us

adversaries. and if they doubt that a us commander in chief, i would honore that agreement, then that agreement does exist anymore, right? doesn't have the deterrence it had in the past, and that is a genuine when concern. by the wave i've spoken to former senior trump advisers who were quite senior in his administration, john kelly, john bolton, and others who say that in a second trump term, he might very well pull out of nato. so those are not undo concerns. there, they're quite public questions about this moment in history and the choice, the choice that this country faces in election in the fall and to jim's point, christiane, let me bring you and you spoke to the joint chiefs about this i certainly did. and as we watch the announcement that the colors are now going to be raised ahead of the world leaders coming in. it's worth saying and repeating what president reagan did hear 40 years ago, the 40th anniversary when he basically said, one's country is worth dying for democracy

see is worth dying for because it is the most noble form of government ever devised. and to that point, i did speak to the chairman of the joint chiefs in an exclusive interview and he had a very similar theme about the value of democracy and freedom our freedom is not free. >> and democracy can stand on its own, but we've got to make sure we're prepared and one of the exact focus on is ensuring that we have they were fighting you skill to deter future conflict. and it's been said that americans of this generation have not yet internalized what apparently a lot of military certainly nato military believed that it's not inconceivable that there could be a great power war again, and that you have to prepare for it. >> do you think people at home, even in europe understand how difficult the situation we're living through right now. >> what i'll tell you, i have a sense. >> it's coming along and

having your work in the indo-pacific before here in europe and in the middle east. i've watched over the years and particularly over the past few years how the warners not only for those of us in uniform, but with our elected leadership and the american public and we've got to continue to remind folks that when you look at the situation that we're seeing that we just can't watch. we got to be we got to lead again. >> let me read you this fragment of a speech. it's better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea? we've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist, hard and an expansion is intent, which president was that ronald reagan. these are words that could be spoken today by an american president and we'll see how president biden shapes his remarks in the framework of what's at stake. 80 years after d-day, as we're seeing

pictures of those days being shown under that tent behind me. we're hearing the invocation from the religious leader here ahead of waiting for the president of france and britain and the king of england and others to come in back to you christiane mentioned pointer hoc, and ronald reagan. of course, reagan spoke there at the 40th anniversary of d-day, a famous speech. and we do know from kayla and other white house reporters reporting that the biden administration has looked at ronald reagan's trip. there are some 40 years ago for the remarks that he gave and somewhat model this trip in parallel to that, obviously joe biden's foreign policy, not unlike in many ways to head of ron reagan, more like ronald reagan's than donald trump's is like ronald reagan's. that's it. that's a really good point. spider marks is also standing buying retired general. it's great to see you spider. talk to us about just the parallels from in 1940 the parallels you see now well, you must have read my notes and my

thoughts clearly the juxtaposition between 44 and 24, quite significant look it's a war of conquest that we saw in 1944 that had to be stopped. >> you had on this autocratic nation that was expansive wanted to expand its capabilities, wanted to expand its way of life. it's cruel intent and what we see today is not to similar in ukraine the challenges between those two periods are quite different, right 19 in the 1930s, 1940s, look america and the world was very hard scrabble place there on the heels of a depression, a decade of economic retrenchment and and individual suffering a desire to try to get back to some level of normalcy and redefine that normalcy and so the notion of linking arms, gripping hands, and trying to pull yourself out of that was second nature fast forward to

today we're a nation of incredible riches scientific developments over the years medical developments, economic growth that's unparalleled. the ability to be anywhere instantaneously on the globe or in space through our connections in cyberspace, it's quite phenomenal. and so what you see today is this increase of self-absorption, this notion of eiseley isolation the individual isolation. so is the world today ready to embrace and grip hands again to resist what we see not only taking place in ukraine, but the potential for conflicts elsewhere, clearly with china and taiwan will we be able to step up and say, yeah, we're going to make a hard call here. we're going to have to sacrifice and we know it's going to be very, very tough. we see today the indications that that is taking place and clearly with nato,

it's quite remarkable and and i pray that nato is going to continue to hold together over the course of time. it needs to be able to hold itself together spider, thanks so much. >> you can see live pictures there. the french president emmanuel macron and president buying. they have now arrived on this stage, the commemoration of the 80th anniversary the allied landings in normandy, d-day. let's listen for a moment

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the last public, followed by the national the united states of america? >> she doesn't watch the ceremony unfold. here. you can you see the french president menu macro and president biden standing there are jim sciutto is with us now, jim, i understand you've got a preview of what president biden will say in his address. >> will biden is going to connect this moment 80 years ago to the moment europe and the world is facing today with russia's invasion of ukraine and it strikes me as christiana was recalling reagan's words 40 years ago about the fight for

democracy, fight for freedom around the world. that, that echoes the words of eisenhower 80 years ago a letter that he sent to all those soldiers who stormed the beaches on the morning of june 6, 6, 1944. contain these lines. it said the eyes of the world are upon you. the hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere, march with you. eisenhower on that morning was making d-day, making that war about a fight for freedom around the world. much as reagan did 40 years ago and watch it one matches now now we'll hear from biden will hear from other leaders connecting that moment generations ago to this generation's war, the war that we are watching unfold in europe today and making it not just about ukraine not, even just about europe, but about the world standing up for the cause of freedom nic robertson, let me bring you in on this.

>> then making that connection in words in these speeches and remarks we're going to hear, but also in the meetings the president biden is going to be having. he's gonna be meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy yeah. >> and for zelenskyy, this there'll be that additional poignancy because of course here is poised, his country is poised hedge. if you will, of what d-day was, which was this huge sacrifices, huge 456,000 troops, four thousand, 414 who died on d-day 2000 of them dead and injured on omaha beach, not far from where the president is standing now by the end of that day, and of course, president zelenskyy is in this moment where he is trying to improve recruitment toughen conscription was because he needs his generation of people in his country to rally to the

flag in the same way that those generations did who were commemorated it seemed today. >> we're willing to sacrifice themselves for their nation, for its future. and it's not easy and the difference being, of course, while he has the supported the weapons from these allies and we talk about the importance of the allies standing with ukraine. >> huge tremendously important for him he has to stand alone in terms of troops, so he will be very cognizant today of the type of sacrifice that he may be calling upon his service men and women to perform in the coming years. so i think this will be a very poignant day for him. we know his well-versed in trying to persuade world leaders to give him that additional support. but this will be a reminder for him that the thing that he genuinely likes the most stacked up against the russian military today is troops. and this will be something perhaps he will be

trying to address in the coming months, years, even. >> again, you are watching this ceremony marking the 80th commemoration of the allied landing and the beaches of normandy, d-day, june 6, 6, 1944 christiania poor listening to all of you discuss this and getting the preview of what's about to be discussed here. yes. >> the importance of d de a successful allied invasion, a successful alliance is paramount in everyone's mind, but the warning is less about 19:44 and it seems to me more about 19:38, 1939 when europe for a moment, let nazi aggression spread and the risks in not responding, the risks in allowing tyranny to have it's way even for a moment around the world, i imagine that's the parallel volodymyr zelenskyy his most concerned about this morning absolutely. and again,

this speech in this day is framed around this. and as we're talking, the military chaplain there is talking about what happened back then when we needed a soldier, you raise your hand. when we needed a marine and m and you raised your hand and they keep showing these pictures of the surviving d-day veterans. and is absolutely astonishing. there's some two dozen americans here, about 40 brits and maybe a dozen or so canadians people who came aboard and came ashore 80 years ago, who was still alive to demonstrate exactly what you've just said, that they were willing. and in fact, they threw themselves at this job. i mean, i spoke to this 101-year-old guy who said he fete his age from 15 to 18, just to be allowed to get into the military and to defend his country. these are amazing heroes and that is really the frame and the celebration of

this day as all these speeches get made. but as you say, putting it into stock relief black and white that we are facing something incredibly dangerous and very similar to what happened all those years ago. and is everybody up to the task? that will be the big question politically? and in every other way. and just remember just like zelenskyy has sometimes, one could say maybe irritated some of his best benefactors by constantly asking, by constantly complaining that he's not getting enough churchill was exactly the same. they had a very very sophisticated operation to persuade president roosevelt to get into world war ii on behalf of them. and the rest of the continent in order to defeat the nazis, who the british and the europeans could see exactly what their aim was and help came late, but it came in time. and that turn the tide of history. and this is the

memory that we that we celebrate and honor today let's jump back in and all together. >> listen as the program continues and is really just starting to get underway. we're going to be hearing from the french president as well. as president biden. let's listen in for a minute. it's finest to fight for symbol, humble, valance the values of freedom. >> liberty, and democracy and when the job is done when the mission is accomplished, when the tyrant is taken down into democracy his stood on america, does something unique in the history of mankind we go home all that america and asks for it return for the sacrifice of our young, our brave, and our finest are a few small plots of land two bury our dead all of

you are seated here in one of those small plots of land that is why this date, june in this place, normandy, and this ceremony here is so important. it is a reminder to all of us of the true cost of war. and the real price of freedom it is a price that we paid on d-day 80 years ago it is a price that we remind all authoritarian dictators today then if necessary we will pay that price again to ensure the success of freedom and that is ultimately why france knows the

united states knows and we know lot of wrong coronae. let us you need to connect a news content fall that the world's most powerful system is not a t7 a2 man by mercenaries, it is not a free jet aircraft carrier patrolling artificial islands. it is not a suicide terrorists killing and slaughter and innocence no the world's most powerful weapon system was, is and shelf for ever be a free people willing to fight for freedom ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you for coming here. thank you for remembering here. thank you. for renewing your faith ingredient may god bless each and every one of you

france, and the united states of america mr. does it doesn't need shared joe biden, madame, the pulmonary judges. >> biden medellin limits you avogadro, the get in missouri. combat told you didn't come along share with you me then as miss here since numbers don't the blache one. thing here to

the french president macron, killing me speaking, are you going to hit your follow this shortly after we're going to be we're likely to be here to court are hurting here from of course, these programs can shift slightly here and they're likely to hear from the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and then president biden himself, four as we have been discussing thing and laying out a very important moment to mark, of course, in history. but an important speech in the present and for the future. we bring in jim sciutto. once again, fascinating to listen to the secretary of american battle a battle monuments, jim and talking about the the strongest weapon system. past, present, and future is still remains is really beautiful remarks and quite pointed remarks directed expressly at russia. he said a

stronger weapon than 272 tanks. course a reference to russian tanks crossing the border into ukraine, but also he specifically referenced chinese ships in the south china sea. so connecting this moment, 80 years ago when the us set up against nazi germany to us. and us allies challenge not just to russia and ukraine, but china in asia, south china sea, but also of course, taiwan. it's notable that they are globalizing this fight in effect connecting it to history and making it clear that that fight extends from europe to asia today, it was, they were quite pointed fiery words. i would even say for the head of the battlefield monuments commission which i believe we will hear echoed by president biden when he speaks, we should note that when he was speaking to abc earlier today biden had quite strong words for vladimir putin as well saying, no, he is

not a decent man. he is a dictators. again, drawing lines between what the us stood up to those 80 years ago today to what? president biden and my crow was it believes it is standing up to us and its allies. i should say, standing up to today was it in both charles, you who is in charge of us monuments around the world. he was a member of congress, a republican member of congress, some 14, 15 years ago from hawaii. >> one of the former republican members of congress who ultimately endorsed president biden in 2020. >> again, i do believe there is likely some symbolism there. this is not a political trip, this is a trip that obviously present biden is taken as head of state to commemorate the us involvement in the allied invasion of normandy in 1944. but there are obvious political implications here in the united states and there is very much a domestic audience everything you are seeing today, and we'll see over the next few days, let's get to our senior white

house correspondent, kayla tausche, who is also enormity watching all of this as we wait. president biden's address, his first moment really the kickoff moment over what will be several days for him to address the world. but also kayla, the american and first we will hear from defense secretary lloyd austin, just in a few moments after the french president concludes, the john, you're right, there is a domestic audience for this speech as leaders often do president biden is expected to talk at length about the heroics of d-day, about the band at all that followed over the course of more than a month. >> and the thousands of lives that were lost, many of them varied here at the american cemetery. he's expected to talk about the piece, this stability, the security that followed that mission, and how that is the goal today as it stands, jake sullivan, the national security adviser, has is that the president biden is expected to draw what he called a through line from world war

ii to today, the importance of keeping these alliances ironclad, continuing to stand up to tyranny, continuing to stand up to dictators, and continuing to stand up to aggressors around the world, even if they are not in the active act of aggressing to send a message to adversaries that this alliance is ironclad and remains in synchrony for the mission that is at hand. that is what we expect to president biden two say today an interesting relationship to watch, as well as the relationship between president biden and president macron, that bond has grown much tighter over the last few years despite the opportunity for a few fractures, you might remember early on in president biden's term there was a falling out over the exclusion region of france from a partnership with australia and the uk to develop nuclear powered submarines and the iron pacific that eventually was mended. and then there's been something of a rift between the two liters on the handling of

the situation in gaza with macron, same recently that france was ready to recognize a palestinian state essentially a break with the us position, which has said that that should be reached through negotiated process. so there are certainly moments of difference between these two liters and they're going to be discussing all of those things later today at a state visit. but for today, it is the purpose of standing shoulder to shoulder themselves. the other world leaders who are here and of course ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy whose presence here itself is symbolic of the fight at hand and a unity that these leaders are trying to keep together. despite the fact that now it has been years, they have been funding and fighting funding for the fighting in ukraine. and that fight of course, will continue for the foreseeable future. >> i believe president macron is now speaking in english to the audience there at normally lives listening experiments shown the norm and further limit higher cism vw isi hello

winner, xiaomi shift solar sold difference in new normally on par promise i was not lying to wasn't let's go into nic robertson who also is watching this, nick, i want to read to you from an interview that president biden gave the smb morning and we're going to hear more from this interview. i'm normandy. from normandy. we're gonna hear more from this interview over the course of the de. and it is one of i think the significant events that the president is doing during this trip president biden was responding to some criticism of the us now allowing ukraine to use american made weapons to strike into russia in president biden said, i've known putin for over 40 years. he is concerned me for 40 years. biden told david muir of abc news, he's not a decent man. he's a dictator, and he's struggling to make sure he holds his country together while he keeps this assault going. we're not talking about giving ukraine weapons to strike moscow to

strike the kremlin is to strike just across the border obviously, nick, ukraine very much on the president's mind absolutely. >> and this is something that undoubtedly you can expect. president zelenskyy to push him to post president macron in any other leader who's supplying weapons and president biden has made it clear it it appears at least for these weapons can be used to strike inside russia russia, and positions that are striking for example, recently in kharkiv, right up in the northeast of ukraine, right close to the border. they're zelenskyy would daily like to be able to use he was all the all the weapons he gets from the west, including the fighter jets when they come the f6, things to be able to reach deeper into russia. but these are significant because they, if you will prevent russia having the ability to stand just a few miles back in the case of kharkiv 20 or 30 miles back from from the target and love these massive s3 hundred

surface. the missiles are they they repurpose for firing at civilian targets in the cities. there. that they, they've been doing with impunity. so it makes a big difference for zelenskyy putin has said that there will be consequences for the united states for this unspecified consequences, but but but consequences nonetheless, this is something of a threat from president putin is made plenty of threats in the past, they're not to be taken lightly, of course, but this is where zelenskyy feels he needs that additional edge that he wants to be able to target the missile, launches, the rocket launches the ammunition dumps, the things that is using their own indigenously made. attack drones for oil refineries deeper deeper inside russia, but to weaken russia's ability to take on and target ukrainian population. i think for when you look more broadly what is

happening today as we are here for these veterans and veterans getting a medal bestowed upon him by the french president. there what they knew and know and understood about fighting nationalism there's a sense that across the generations since it is being lost, that the outcome of not fighting nationalism, of not taking on that threat is being lost as we see at research and europe and other places let's christian, let me bring you in and just bring our viewers as well as what we're watching in this moment, you see the french president awarding veterans that nation's highest honore and just look at the strengths still of these veterans standing to receive these awards is much deserved. >> awards. they're on stage with the leaders christiane remarkable what the signs president is doing is calling each one by name and saying to

the name he pulls out, i award you i make you a knight of the legion of honor, and it is the highest civilian award that they bestow president biden also then goes to me each with each and every one of them in part of his french speech at the beginning president macron said one of the most beautiful sights in all of france and all of french monuments is right here. >> these graves caveat. she'll mayor, which is the american cemetery where we are and the other allied cemeteries, cemeteries that contain the french and many others. these are the most beautiful spots in france, he says because it reminds us of what you all did to help us and to liberate us and we saw also some of the guests taking part here. tom hanks, actor tom hanks, who with his production company, has done so much to tell the history of world war ii to an enormous and wide, not only

american lay public, but around the world, but importantly also. his partner and standing right there as i speed in film, steven spielberg, who's done so much to tell and remember and gather the story of the shower. his work on preserving the memory of the holocaust, his interviews is monumental and landmark. and remember, on the morning of d-day what president eisenhower said to people when he broadcast, he said although the initial assault may not have been made in your own country, he said to europe, the hour of your liberation is approaching and many of these people plus many other veterans, british and others liberated eventually, the concentration camps. six million jews who's had been slaughtered and the world frankly, did not intervene to help them. and it was only at the end of the war when europe was liberated that the full

horror of what hitler did became fully apparent to everybody and this is the aftermath, the new echo of what we experience today that antisemitism rises. these terrible wars continue the war in gaza continues to war in ukraine continues these are the kinds of bath froze that it had been hoped they've kind of values that have been fought for. >> it had been hoped that they would at least put paid to those kinds of boys. >> and yet they continue and the memory today of all these heroes who stood up and gave their lives in these who survived that massive monumental battle. the biggest amphibious landing in history street is just remarkable to witness i was just thinking it would just be so wonderful viably hear these these kind of intimate conversations between these veterans and the leaders now and when they get being destroyed, these honors, it's just it's just really

important to see. >> and it's really wonderful to see our general chain spider marks with us also again, spider as we are watching this for watching the president of france bestow these honore as on these american heroes looking toward the past, as we said, but spider always thinking toward the future these are marvelous ceremonies. >> k just ask the question, what are the private conversations between president macron president biden, and the young soldiers it's probably a quick joke. it's a very sincere thank you. >> it's a giggle about something silly that occurred. these are just these are just guys who happened to be incredible, incredible patriots what i see and what i absolutely am so proud to be a part of is when you see these young soldiers, the junk

servicemen servicemen and women and they're standing next to these incredible patriots. that came before them you remember that the most important duty of any soldier is to remember to realize that when he and she get up in the morning, they have purpose and they will not forget those that came before or dishonor those that came before. and that's what this ceremony says to me it's so simple, it's sweet it's honorable. >> and it's eternal the sweetness in the simplicity of it is exactly what hits so hard in a world that's so complicated it's this simple courage that changed the course of history. we have not for this part, but president biden has been greeting these veterans. all morning long. in we've got some excerpts of the

types of things that he's been saying to them, you save the soul of the nation. you really do did biden told one of the veterans, give me a hug. god love you. it's my honore, my honore president biden told another one, veteran affairs biden, god. but what one of the vets asked biden, apparently, i have a question. one the hell do you sleep? to which the president responded when the press isn't looking so that's the type of exchange that might be happening now between president biden and these veterans who couldn't quite honestly look at president biden say, you know, young man, the president biden nic robertson, join us in this conversation. what do you saying in these they're very powerful, i mean, you think of these man and they've come, they've come in many cases so we don't forget. their bodies, their friends, who they lost on the beaches who they knew well, they trained with perhaps stood next to in the landing vessel,

made the first few steps across the beach they saw them fall. they knew their name aim say may have held them when they died. and they come back in part two remember them but here they are all these years later being honored in this incredible way. the precedents of two great nations hugging them kissing them bestowing this, this lesion donor this knighthood, a france upon them they've waited. i don't think they've waited all their lives for this is not what they've waited for, but what what an honor what attribute they've they were willing to sacrifice themselves. they saw their friends sacrifice have come back to honor their friends and to hope that they did a good job and that it was worth it. and that we cherish the values which they held so high that of course is going to be the president's message as well.

but it really sends tingles down your spine. i have to say watch it, watching these men struggle up from wheelchairs. in some cases and the look in their eyes clear-eyed looking, looking at these great men that stand in front of man, these great men, these presidents, look at them and see great man in front of them yeah it's moving it really is. >> jim what do you say in quicksort there will, there will come a moment. >> sadly, quite soon when there will no longer be living matter veterans, veterans to pin those metals on at this ceremony. think of it 80 years ago today, even if you lied about your age to get on those landing votes and you were 15, 16 your 96-years-old the oldest living veteran, as i understand it as 108-years-old every year, the number of those veterans standing there there are dwindles. and there will come a

time not too far away when there won't be any who were on those beaches who remember personally will remember we'll know. the history. we'll have the videos will have their stories, but moments like this. they're becoming fewer and further between over time. so it's truly remarkable to see them there. and boy, you know, they're all pushing 100 or a pass to 100 and are still well, they're looking pretty good right? >> it's amazing to see them there. i want to play some sound if we can, if we have it from interview that president biden gave from normandy with abc, because as we've said, while this is honoring the heroes of that de, some 80 years ago, the minds of the leaders because they are very much on the president about the future. the future of europe, the future of locks phi around the world. and president biden spoke about the situation in ukraine. let's listen to that i've known for over 40 years.

he's concerned me for 40 years. he's not a decent man the dictator, and he's struggling to make sure he holds his country together while still keeping this assault going we're not talking about giving the weapons the strike moscow i'll just strike the kremlin, the strike instance. just across the border where they're receiving significant fire from conventional weapons used by the russians goo into ukraine to kill ukrainians again, that was president biden speaking abc news about vladimir putin who said easiest for 40 years, i don't believe that so vladimir putin was a kgb officer and east germany at the time, 40 years ago in the early 80s. >> but certainly president biden has no vladimir putin for awhile genome porto's still with us right now no doubt, president biden and manual macron, who were seeing on your screen, right. and how spend much of every day right now thinking about vladimir putin?

>> that's absolutely right vladimir putin first came into the public sphere in a, in a, in a global way, when boris yeltsin, the president of russia, who president clinton, and all the western leaders at the time had worked with because it was yeltsin who have a oversaw the dissolution of the soviet union at the end of gorbachev's term. and it was yeltsin who the west stored they could work reads two create a different kind of russia and finally a different kind of relationship on the continent of europe, there would be democratic and free, and that would be uncontested in that regard. and it was yeltsin who then raised to his prominent place vladimir putin, saying that he wanted him to succeed him in part because he thought vladimir putin biden would protect his family, would not pursue any corruption charges against him vladimir putin had grown up through the intelligence services notably

before the wall came down in germany. and he he called that the worst catastrophe for russia in the 20th century. >> you secretary lloyd austin has begun to speak, let's listening why do you need dr. brian pregnant mothers, macron distinguish gash ladies and gentlemen. >> and above all veterans of world war ii i am honored to stand again at this howell place we bow our heads to remember the more than 9,000 us and allied soldiers killed or wounded on d-day by hitler's forces on behalf of the united states department of defense. i

am here to give inadequate as that word maybe 80 years later we think. the young americans who took the beaches who helped liberate france and who helped free this continent from nazi tyranny we thank every allied warrior who fought for freedom on june 6, 1944. and we think the american and allied veterans who have rallied once more on the shores of enormity victors of d-day we are humbled by your presence young americans who fought through the clamor and the chaos on d-day have grown old or left

and whenever a veteran of d-day, his gathered to his maker in the fullness of time after a long life, live in freedom he wins a final victory over hipper you helped defeat, wouldn't churchill called a monstrous tyranny? >> never suppressed in the dark law lamentable catalogue of human crime and you laid the foundation for a more just free and decent world. together with our allies, we build peace out of war a hard-headed piece a piece renewed by constant commitment apiece forage by the generation that won the bloodiest war in human history.

so our gratitude much never fade our memories must never do in our resolve must never fail we still seek a world where aggression is a sin and we're human rights are sacred in were all people can live in freedom and so we must rally again to defend the open post-war world of rules rights, and responsibilities those rules protect us those rights the, finance and those responsibilities. someone us once more at this hinge in history we must again stand firm against aggression and

tyranny and as i said here last year if a troops of the world's democracies could risk their lives for freedom then surely the citizens of the world's democracy can risk our comfort for freedom. now so let us again uphold the spirit of d-day let us again defend the principles that the allied armies, karam and let us again, thank the heroes of d-day who kept freedom alive for us all you save the world you save the

world and we must only defendant gentleman. we salute you may god bless the american and allied troops who fought here may god bless the united states of america and may god bless all who cherish human freedom like you papa what was it like on d-day we.

>> had no idea are we ever gonna do but it was the big game very precisely the club's mission was established or so from the beach on june 6th

playing was too low, which was too fast. fire coming up so it was looking sending never seen before in white train i always have to set that the power of my mother's prayer that saved me that day gets to me thinking about but as i look overrules crossing i see people said vote you would waver i have to go

back because there's something there that draws your back i have a very close friend that i knew by the name of edward russia, which had machinda very bad stomach wall and i could not even bandage it properly we said goodbye to me care that may ever each laying here on the cemetery in covid i think of the many men here that there paid the ultimate price for the freedom of view young people want to know need to know everybody i saw that i was glad the fight alongside find them. >> they were willing to stand up and not all came back and they all have a story to tell. >> it's our responsibility to tell those stories people will not be forgotten as long as we