like a scene out of a movie these people come into the store. they think that they are going to make a quickest escape. then all of you guys are blocking the entrance and laughing at them. so what was that like. describe the thieves. what did they look like? >> and i hate that i was even laughing at them it was kind of -- it was just like i could not -- it was unbelievable. i just couldn't belief this was happening and they got caught. these poor kids, they have just ruined their summer. oh, lord. as a mom, i was like oh my gosh these kids have got to be scared to death in there. but they are going to learn a lesson. >> carley: that is the point. they made the escape. we hope they learned their lesson through. this angela, cody, thank you for capturing it on cameras and a thank you for joining us this morning. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪

♪ >> brian: all right. here we go. it's #:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is thursday, june 6th. this is "fox & friends." today marks the 80th anniversary of d-day when american troops, joined by others, stormed the beaches of germany to defeat germany ultimately setting the stage for victory in world war ii. >> for a 19-year-old, which i was then was extremely important. i wasn't afraid. >> people a hell of a lot tougher than you guys. >> brian: president biden is in normandy right now so is martha mccallum covering the moments and events of the day. she will join us. >> steve: meanwhile back here at home president trump's short list getting shorter. vetting is ramping up those are the folks on the list so far. >> ainsley: all right. they got some information. the destruction, the destructive tornadoes hitting maryland downing a lot of trees and trapping some of the residents. janice dean is trackenning all of that.

>> lawrence: "fox & friends" starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. so today marks the 80th anniversary of d-day. right now president biden is in normandy, france along with world war ii veterans and other words leaders. >> steve: that's right. is he reaching each and every american that has made the trip. they are gathering to common rated the historic invasion that led to the defeat of the nazis in europe 80 years ago today. >> ainsley: and today the world will pause to honor the u.s. and the allied forces who stormed those beaches of normandy on this very day in 1944. and to remember the 73,000 allied service members who lost their lives fighting for our freedom. >> brian: peter doocy joins us now from normandy. peter? >> peter: and this plateau behind us where there is now an american cemetery is about as far as the successful allied forces made it on d-day after

fighting to reclaim the beach and then scaling some very steep cliffs. 80 years ago seems like a long time, except to the people that were there, including some who are here today. >> you can never repeat those kids who lost their lives there. >> for a 19-year-old, which i was then, was extremely important. i wasn't afraid. i was brought up by the event happening. >> peter: already this morning here in normandy, president biden has met with some of the world war ii veterans in france right now. ahead of a ceremony that is going to feature flyovers and remarks from the president. we know during this trip president biden plans to eventually start drawing parallels between the decisions u.s. policymakers made ahead of d-day and the decisions u.s. lawmakers making now with a dictator trying to move through europe. proclamation that says from the president today we remember all the americans who laid down

their lives on d-day to help end the tyranny of fascism across europe, liberty oppressed people and assure the flasm liberty would burn bright around the world. even though this is a very solemn place and a solemn anniversary, we are getting details about some of the jokes president biden and these veterans are making to each other. one of the vets told the president as he got back into his wheelchair, don't get old. president biden told another good move, man, as he dropped back into his wheelchair. president biden told one of the vets with thick white can you recalls under his veteran's cap can i borrow some of your hair? told another they were greatest generation ever, man, and that you saved the world. based on everything that you read about this place and hear about this place and get to see, there is a lot to that. he is right. back to you.

>> steve: peter, we saw some of the veterans. i know maybe one of the most famous modern movies about d-day was saving private ryan, which actually was not shot in france. it was shot in ireland. tom hanks is there today, right? >> peter: yeah. he was walking around. he sat for a couple introduce down the pathway. it was interesting. it really hammered home how veterans focused this anniversary is is he like one of the world's most famous actors. he is sitting there and people say there is tom hanks and they kind of continued along to get into a position to see the ceremony. >> ainsley: is he very involved with the military. is he one of the ambassadors with the elizabeth dole foundation she provides nurses and assistance for veterans after they come home. >> brian: thanks, peter. bring in the host of the story martha mccallum, done specials about world war ii. martha, your thoughts on the 80-year mark? >> martha: well, good morning, everybody. and it's great to be with you.

it is an extraordinarily beautiful morning here in normandy. the sun is out. the skies are blue. you can see the beach behind me that is omaha beach where nearly 150,000 allied forces landed 80 years ago today. they started with parajumpers in the early hours of the morning and hours before that there were rangers who scaled the cliffs at point ahawk in order to take out german guns, 255 of those rangers, only 90 of them were still alive two days later. the extraordinary sacrifice of these young men is what you feel so intensely here at normandy this will never be forgotten and we need to understand context today. we will look for the president to speak about the context of this in the larger picture of

what it means for the threats that we face today. >> lawrence: so martha, i have been watching your conch, most americans when you meet one world war ii veteran you take that moment in because you don't get that opportunity much you have had the opportunity to sit with so many of them. thank you, lawrence, to a person they are so frank and straightforward about how they feel about all of this. they also are just so grateful to those that they lost, the buddies that were alongside them on the beaches and the cliffs. when they went into the head degree fighting deeper in i sat down with 14-year-old veteran.

>> let's listen what was in your heart what do you remember. >> infantry only 12 weeks training. they knew we were going into this battle we got 17 weeks' training. >> martha: once you made it up the beach and you lost a lot of people you knew on the ship, right? >> yes. >> martha: what was that like for you. >> i will just say this, on the 1st day the 29 division and the first division had casualties 5720. i will say that again. 5720 casualties out on the first day. >> ainsley: hard to believe he is 104 years old he is so lucid. >> martha: he is remarkable. came over on the queen mary, ainsley. and a group of them came over on the queen mary, which obviously was one of the big transport ships bringing americans over to fight here. and they were dancing every night. steve is really into dancing and

he plays golf. he is an extraordinary lesson, i think, for all of us. but, to a person, i asked each of these men what do you think of your country today and the country that you fought so hard to keep free? they were all, to a person, said that they don't feel great about it, that they worry about the united states and they worry about the commitment of our young people to protect the country and whether or not they would answer the call that these young men did so, so willingly to go fight and to come over here. >> steve: indeed. and the average age of the average veteran in attendance today is 100. only about 200 survive. and, martha, i'm sure you saw that apparently one of the fellows who is -- who had taken an honor flight toward france for today died on friday. he had actually witnessed the raising of the flag iwo jima and sadly passed away. he was one of those guys.

his name robert perchetti. he was one of those guys who loved to tell the story of what happened during world war ii? >> martha: i heard he was doing well before the trip. i would only say this. there is also a flight that brought four hospice patients who are world war ii veterans. they came n the morning and went back out last evening because they wanted so much to be on the ground here where they left behind so many of their brothers, i don't know the gentleman his family might end up saying he was doing what he really wanted to do in making this trip. >> brian: they land in june, paris is liberated by august. august 25th, 1944. the fighting and the sacrifice was overwhelming. >> ainsley: martha has a special the final juniory the 80th anniversary of d-day. available later this month on fox nation. thank you, martha. excellent job. >> brian: we will check back.

>> martha: thank you all. we will see you later. >> steve: we're going to keep it live in france. but, also, we're going to talk a little bit about what is happening in this country and, of course, it is a presidential election year. and as it turns out, we have heard for a while that the president has -- former president, donald trump, has got some names of people who would be great as his veep in his head and maybe they have actually revealed more of that hand because, apparently, at least four of the people have been asked to submit paperwork and stuff like that. they are being vetted. >> ainsley: doug burgum, marco rubio, tim scott, and j.d. vance. >> brian: yeah. we will get to that a little bit later. elise stefanik is on it. byron donalds, is he also there. >> ainsley: those four, i believe, received the vetting papers according to this article? >> brian: okay. let's talk about 2024. and the president of the united states did get system good news yesterday in terms of the lawfare that's been levied at him.

it looks like the georgia case there is just no way that case is going to go before this election is done. and a further delay in the documents case. the president of the united states is working hard to get the gag order lifted on his case in new york. so he can start fighting back against the michael cohens of the world, stormy daniels. personally, i think it's better if he doesn't. but he does want the freedom to be able to do it. >> ainsley: last night sean hannity went over to mar-a-lago and he interviewed donald trump and it aired last night. a portion of it aired last night. lawrence and i were talking. i thought it was his best interview. >> lawrence: one of his best interviews. >> ainsley: he was so humble and talked about what the biden family is going through with addiction. and what he went through with addiction. talked about the abortion issue how it needs to be a state issue. go back to the states. some states are liberal and some conservative. let the people decide. >> lawrence: he also talked about how he arrived at that position. how it was tradition that it should have been left up to the states. he said you got to follow your hearts. >> brian: i thought he wants to be the dictator. set worst dictator ever.

>> lawrence: exactly right. it was he was a very powerful moment. he also talked about the threat to national security and shear little piece of that. >> most dangerous point in the history of our country because of the power of weaponry. nuclear weapons in particular. weapons that are so powerful that and i have seen the effects and i had an uncle, get professor at mit we used to talk about nuclear a lot. he used to talk about the power of nuclear. uncle john, we are a briefcase the size of regular briefcase would do damage to -- i don't even want to discuss. and we're a long way from that in terms of the advancement of that technology and it's very bad, very scary. and i will tell you we have a chance of going into world war iii because of our leader. he talked the other night about that nuclear doesn't matter so much. what matters is, think of this, global warming.

the only global warming that matters to me is nuclear global warming. >> lawrence: all this talk about donald trump in the last administration that you couldn't trust him with the nuclear codes. >> steve: right. >> lawrence: there were no new wars and relationships, whether you agree or not, where he was able to have meetings with putin and say where he stands on it. have a meeting with kim kim jong un and says where america stands on the national stage. you look at it now, what is happening and wars are breaking out everywhere. >> steve: right. exactly. it was a great interview. >> ainsley: he said what led to that is that he was saying that joe biden always talks about as the most existential threat is the environment. he said, look, i'm in some ways an environmentalist. i want clean air. i want clean water. but the most existential threat is nuclear -- our nuclear weapons. iran is very close to nuclear weapons. and that's a huge danger. >> brian: joe biden's philosophy is telling our allies not to

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♪ >> steve: it is 20 minutes afternoon in france right now. and president biden is expected to take the stage there at normandy any second as the ceremony for the 80th anniversary of d-day is about to begin in normandy, france. they got it down to the minute and we are hoping that things kick off there. the president will be speaking and he is going to be talking about what happened 80 years ago today and also what is happening today between russia and ukraine. >> brian: evidently he is going to be channeling reagan. john meacham on record talking politico walk the same steps through the graves that reagan

walked. try to rouse democracy. nato, inif a size ukraine in this speech. did i not realize this but reagan, 40 years ago, really gave new attention to the importance of d-day and humanize it in a way i thought it was just understood but evidently reagan was the one who punctuated it so effective in his speech. his foreign policy 35% approval to 50%. walked away with 49 states later that year. 49-state victory for re-election. >> ainsley: definitely a time for our country. >> lawrence: i hope he uses it as an opportunity to rally our young people for service. >> brian: he never talks about that, ever. >> lawrence: important when it comes to recruitment what we are fighting for. see all the kids on the college campus they understand the value set of america. i hope he uses this as a moment to get them involved. >> ainsley: honor world war ii veterans. d-day ceremony beginning this morning 6:30. the french national anthem. the u.s. national anthem.

the president is spoked to speak 6:29. taps. flyover at the beginning of the ceremony and one at the end. at the end the president and the first lady walk through the cemetery. >> brian: why would the 45th president who wants to become the 47th president going to the west coast today? >> steve: money. all about money. the former president is going to have a fundraiser at the home of david sacks. is he a long-time friend of peter thiel, elon musk, he is a really rich guy. they have a fundraiser at his house. they expect to raise something like $12 million. as it turns out, david sacks, according to the times today, came into the orbit of the former president they were having the dinner, the former president was, with j.d. vance in washington in the month of march. and vance said hey, i want you to meet my friend david sacks. as it turns out, it sounds like they are quite aligned politically, and now they are going to be having this

fundraiser tonight. >> ainsley: we are a little more than a month away from the rnc. that starts on july 15th. so that means we'll probably find out who his v.p. pick will be. >> lawrence: right before. >> ainsley: coming up right before. or maybe there and fox news is reporting the presidential -- the vice presidential contender ares, four of them at least, have received the vetting papers. and that would be marco rubio, tim scott, doug burgum and j.d. vance. there are some others on the list that he is apparently looking at apparently. tom cotton, byron dondz and elise stefanik. >> lawrence: if you want to know out of this bunch shot biggest. look at the democrats and who they are attacking right now. look at the social media and some of the ads they have already released. they have done tim scott. byron donalds, they have attacked j.d. vance, and they have attacked not doug burgum but elise stefanik. they are going after -- marco rubio as well. they are going after all the people that they feel like could

invite more voters into the republican party. >> brian: i always look at the sunday shows. that's where the president gets his auditions because he wants them to go into hostile territory and see how it's done. byron donalds i watched last night about 10:00 because of the comments he made about jim crow and that period of time was better for the black family as brutal as it was with segregation. i watched him go in there, go to battle for it. talked about republicans and historically democrats were the ones with segregation and jim crow. i thought he was brilliant. marco rubio is a saber tooth tiger in there and tom cotton has three straight weeks in a row taking the fire and givings it back. and left all three hosts flabbergasted and marco rubio really understands him. i don't think he can go wrong with any of them. i think all of them are going to be in the cabinet should he win. >> ainsley: doug burgum done well with his businesses. i think is he a billionaire. and tim scott. such a godly man people like him a lot in south carolina and across the country. >> brian: doug burgum was really

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>> steve: prosecutors in the hunter biden gun trial in delaware could rest their cases as early as today. that's earlier than we thought. after an fbi agent, a gun seller, and two of the first sons' ex's testified against hunter yesterday. >> ainsley: rich edson is live in wilmington with the latest for us. rich? >> rich: good morning. ex-wife, ex-wife and gun salesman witnesses.

about a couple of hours here at this wilmington courthouse. we'll start with the defense cross of the gun store clerk who sold hunter biden that gun back in 2018. his name is gordon cleveland. in court yesterday, prosecutors presented that gun, the one that hunter owned for 11 days at a time the prosecution maintains he was an active drug user. cleveland says he told hunter to fill out the federal purchase form truthfully. he says he stood two feet from hunter and saw him answer no to whether he was an unlawful user of drugs. prosecutors also called his ex-wife, kathleen buhle, she testified she found a crack pipe in july of 2015. buhle also says she scoured her cars before lending them to her daughters to ensure they weren't driving around with drugs. committees tan, hunter's ex-gir ex-girlex-girlfriendhunter woulw

cash to purchase drugs. during one five day period she saw hunter smoking crack every 20 minutes. she did admit she had no idea what hunter was doing when he bought that firearm since they hadn't spoken for several weeks. prosecutors drew much of this evidence from hunter's laptop. an fbi agent testified that it did not appear to be tampered with when it was out of hunter's possession for several months at a repair shop. hunter's sister-in-law, who he was also involved with, haley biden is expected to testify today. the prosecution says they may wrap up all their witnesses today. they have several on the docket still. they expect to get them quickly and then it will up to the defense to call their witnesses. back to you. >> brian: all right, rich. thanks so much. this is the key. >> steve: rich, can i just ask you a quick c question? yesterdays the testimony was so damning across the board of hunter and his past he i escapa, shenanigans. as abbe lowell been able to introduce any reasonable doubt?

you know, just a little nugget because it all sounds pretty damning. >> rich: what abbe lowell is arguing is that hunter biden's behavior in this era, this four year span, is not of question. what's of question is during that exact period in october of 2018, when he purchased that gun was he under the influence? was he a drug user at that moment? and is he -- he has gotten to the reasonable doubt or thinks he has gotten or pushing that reasonable doubt by saying at that moment the ex-girlfriend, i wasn't in contact with him then, i don't know what he was doing in that moment. >> lawrence: just grasping for straws. thanks, rich. he san addict. this entire period. he took a break when he went to go purchase a gun. >> brian: by the way, i still don't know why he needed the gun. the gun store clerk gordon cleveland says you saw him strike that box with an x? gordon cleveland, yes. ladies and gentlemen, i rest my case. that is basically that is it.

thank you for coming. tip the waitresses. you know, we have -- i'm going to call it a day. >> ainsley: by the power invested in me. >> brian: good night, everybody. thanks for satisfying my retainer. and the sad thing is the laptop is real and unaltered. that is the big story to me because, you remember they took the press secretary's kayleigh mcenany's account and they suspended it because she forwarded the "new york post" article. and then they said well, the laptop might be his but they manipulated it. the fbi says oh, by the way, his laptop and they didn't touch it. >> ainsley: and i liked last night during the trump interview, when donald trump said i feel very bad when it comes to the addiction issue for hunter biden. i thought that was nice, pandemic they thick. he said he has dealt with addiction in his family, too. his brother who died and he said he was so good-looking. he said he was so successful. and. >> brian: pilot. >> ainsley: the alcohol is what, you know, was his eventually did

him in. >> steve: we have that soundbite. let's play it. >> not only a brother i lost a lot of friends a addiction, drugs, alcohol. there are also addictions, also, frankly, that would be nice if people would do things and live certain ways. they are not able to break it. i have had friends that are so strong. my brother was a strong person. i have had friends that were so strong, so powerful, they couldn't stay away from a glass of alcohol. they couldn't stay away from a drug. they had to have a drug. but, you know the way that you solve the problem? don't have them. >> lawrence: always tell when an issue is personal to the former president. because, you know, the talking points go away. he spoke from the heart. and, you know, this was an opportunity for him to take a shot at joe biden or hunter biden and talk about the family. and talk about it. but he goes, no, it's addiction. and i have been hit personally. >> ainsley: i'm not bragging i never had alcohol because my brother just told me never try

it. always tell kids he said, quote, if you never have a drink, you will never have a problem. i thought that was great advice for us to tell our kids when you have children one day. >> steve: absolutely. if you look at the two people running for president right now, joe biden and donald trump both say they have never had a drink. >> brian: that would be bad news. >> ainsley: biden hasn't either? >> steve: part of the story. >> brian: that would be bad news for my family and legacy we have 100 years of bar owners. no offense. a different thing. you know where abuse is and you maybe can do it casually. >> steve: it can be very troublesome and it can destroy lives. all right. 25 minutes before 1 chock in the afternoon. let's go back live right now to normandy, france. can you see the stage set up for the 80th anniversary of the d-day ceremony. ceremony about to begin. c-130 flyover. can you hear the orchestra is playing. in attendance some of the men who were there 80 years ago

today. and a little later on president and first lady walk through the ceremony at normandy 9388 military are buried. >> lawrence: not just the 80th anniversary, this is probably going to be the last for all those men that are here today as martha mccallum talked about earlier, some of the folks that are there were actually on hospice but they wanted one more trip. >> steve: right. >> lawrence: to remember. >> brian: when i was over at fort liberty, fort bragg, whatever you want to call it. they were all preparing to go. they were saying they were so moved by how the people of france are more into this than even we are. they are so thankful for generations gone by and for the ones that fought there.

>> ainsley: everyone enjoying their freedom here in the united states of america because of those men and women fighting for our country. it is the greatest generation. tom brokaw wrote that book. i remember my grandparents reading it. my grandfather's both fought in world war ii. i just wish we could pause and, you know, stop time for a second because many of them are 100 years old. they were 18, 19, 20 years old. this is the 80th anniversary. >> brian: in a way so easy then because good and bad. flat out evil. a group of people, jews being tortured. then you have nazis oppressing. and then you have a country invading. and they are looking to come to nate and destroy and the people that need to come to the rescue reluctant america after attacked in japan. we said germany we're going to go after you, too. and this was the day that germany was anticipating. and we had to have the -- we had to have the -- it had to be by surprise. >> ainsley: did you know, sorry, steve, really quickly, did you know it was originally set for

june 5th. the record was so bad eisenhower pushed it back a day and it's june 6th now. >> steve: eisenhower the man from my hometown kid from kansas grew up in the shadow of a green elevator. went on to lead d-day. what is interesting, and we are still waiting for things to start. just a couple of the numbers to put it into perspective. nearly 160,000 allied troops landed 80 years ago today. it is 6:38 in the east in the morning. the invasion started at 6:30 in the morning local time, 80 years ago. and there were 73,000 from the united states. 83,000 from the united kingdom and canada. and there on the shore were about 50,000 germans. in all, more than 2 million allied soldiers and sailors and pilots and medics and others were involved in operation overlord, the battle to save france from the nazis, and it

started 80 years ago today. >> lawrence: ainsley, you were talking about stopping time. i just hope all the history and political science classes for our high schoolers, our middle school take a moment and turn the tv on today to witness this. there are so many of that generation that don't know these stories. they don't understand. they don't know what d-day is. what a better way for them to witness and understand history by hearing these stories, brian. >> brian: because we had courage of people to shoot the film. you don't have to have reenactors. you actually have the actors. shotly after midnight. 2700 allied bombing defenses soften up the targets. followed by 1200 aircraft carrying 300,000. 1:30 in the morning 101st lands. 230 in the morning the 82 and r. alandise. 5:00 a.m. allied shelling german coastal defenses and 6:30 they start landing on the beaches. there was no night vision glasses needed to be able to

see. yet need to be hidden. >> ainsley: two components operation neptune naval assault and operation overlord the broader invasion strategy. 160,000 allied troops landed on five different beaches. soared, juneau gold, we hear a lot about omaha and a lot about utah. british and american airborne forces landed inland at the time. it's hard to believe there were 160,000 allied soldiers, 73,000 died. almost half died. >> lawrence: you can't talk about this day without talking about patten and the fact that they didn't know what he was going they were following him, little did they know he had another plan. let's bring in martha mccallum, she is there live on the ground. she has been covering this for days. we don't have martha. >> steve: she will be with us in just a second.

>> ainsley: she has been covering this the past few days. what an emotional event to go to. >> steve: no kidding. very shortly the official party entrance will occur and you will see the leaders come in. there will be a c-130 flyover. and then the national anthem of france and united statessened invocation. we are going to hear from president macron, our secretary of defense lloyd austin and then the president. our president is beginning a four-day visit to france. there is going to be the speech this morning. and then back tomorrow at pointe du hoc army rangers skilled the cliffs against germans. brian, when you brought up that speech that ronald reagan gave 40 years ago, it is regarded as one of the greatest speeches by an american president on foreign soil, ever. you know, it was written by peag peggy noonan who works for the "wall street journal" and was a speech writer for the president then. what is interesting and you were

talking about the campaign at the time -- back then they actually -- the white house convinced france to build a stage like that and to start things early so that it could be on early during "the today show" and good morning america here in the united states. so people could see the president live as they are continuing today. shots of president reagan walking through the graves. is what joe biden is going to look tomorrow late, too. think about this, on the eastern front was the soviet union. and we were -- knew communism was a threat we said we will make friends with stalin in order to combine and crush hitler. we -- macron had invited vladimir putin to join him and he quickly rescinded. he realized that's the wrong message to send because he is trying to do, in my vision, not the vision of every republican. is he trying to do what hitler did. trying to dominate europe again. when people see the remnants and see this game plan, that's why

they want to put the stakes down in ukraine. >> lawrence: so, brian, i'm sorry, ainsley, brian, to that point, what do you think the president needs to say today? because it's going to be a big speech? >> brian: is he going to ground it to ukraine. ground to the expansion of nato. >> ainsley: look at these faces. many of them are 100 years old. to your point, steve, it was 13 minutes ago that they stormed the beaches of normandy 80 years ago. and now they are older men. many of them in wheelchairs. some of them on hospice. and they were -- you know, they were facing the rest of their lives and did all of that for you, for me, and our country to end the concentration camps, to tackle the nazi-occupied france to take down hitler. >> steve: that's right. >> brian: take down mussolini. >> steve: martha mccallum live for us. when you think about the daunting task. so you had nearly 160,000 allied troops land today 80 years ago. and we have seen the movies.

we've seen the news reel. they were running toward german machine gun deaths where they were getting slaughtered left and right. and, by the end of today, 80 years ago, 4415 allied personnel lost their lives, including 2500 and 1 americans. >> martha: that's right, steve. you know, it is remarkable, how many of these men are here with us today. there are over 100, maybe close to 200 world war ii veterans who have been brought here by various organizations, you know, american airlines, dealt tax the greatest generations' foundation they make it as easy as possible for these veterans to make the trim. they can bring a family member with them. they have a place to stay here in france. they're transported from one place to another. but we have just watched something truly remarkable. you talk about the fact that they landed on these beaches 80 years ago today.

we watched the camera that is on the pool feed here was introducing these men and they came from the oceanside towards the platform where they are sitting. and it appeared as if they were rising off the beach again. some of them in wheelchairs, but many of them walking. it is striking to me how many of them are walking. and they are roughly between 97 and 104 years old. steve, who i interviewed the other day, the 104-year-old gentleman who i just walked about. he walked up essentially from the ridge overlooking the beach sat down on that platform so proudly. american resilience. american determination. when world war ii started. we didn't have england was completely not able to ready themselves for at that point. we had will 500 rifles and 200

tanks and no wonder the world wondered whether we could stand up to the forces of the nazis, the american presence really was the dominant force in peeling back the nazi occupation which went on for four years here in france. >> brian: you got to figure the people in their 90's lied about their age. some lied about being 18. and they signed up and they went in. and they never talked about it. one of the major takeaways tom brokaw's book. nobody ever talk about the war they fought, the war they won. have you ever been able to discern why? >> lawrence: i think we lost martha. >> ainsley: do you think so it was because they were so proud and they didn't want to come back and maybe be boastful about winning the war? >> brian: or they just wanted to turn the page it was so horrific they wanted to get back to their

lives. >> ainsley: they lois so many friends. >> steve: i think that's probably exactly right, brian. it was so bad and they didn't want to relive it. but, nonetheless, and to earlier point, they didn't really talk about what they saw why are they interest today? you see some of the -- there are less than 200 survivors at this point. >> brian: all right. >> steve: come to honor their fallen comrades. others want to enjoy the pageantry one last time. >> brian: we're going to take a short time-out and we're going to come back. the ceremony is a little bit behind schedule. >> steve: 15 minutes. >> brian: we're going to try to cover it all. you are watching "fox & friends." ♪ it's good to get some fresh air. fresh air? hi guys! bill, you look great! now that i have inspire, i'm free from struggling with the mask and the hose.

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>> lawrence: so you're looking live at normandy, france where we are awaiting the 80th anniversary of d-day ceremony to begin. we will bring it to you live as soon as that happens. meanwhile, president trump sounds off on biden's border executive order. watch. >> millions of people are allowed to come in. it's meaningless. it's a joke. everybody knows it. it has nothing to do with border

security. and he didn't need anything from congress. all he has to do is shut the border. you say shut the border, sign an order, and the border will close. i did it. we had the best border, the safest border in history. >> lawrence: this comes as new york city are set to reach across the aisle and put an end to sanctuary city policies. this after venezuelan migrant here illegally shot and wounded two nypd officers. democratic congressman robert holden and republican congressman joe borelli join us now. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining the program. it's good to see some bipartisan action. joe, tell me why the bill now. >> well, we just saw this heinous crime committed by a migrant, shooting a police officer, two of them. but one of them at point blank range where he clearly wanted to kill, if not seriously harm that officer. this is part of a pattern. we know that there are patterns of crime that are related to the

hotels and camps where we have put migrants. and, frankly, lawrence, i mean, these sanctuary city policies started like the 80's and 90's when there was a discussion of what to do with the children of people who have brought them here illegally. that morphed under the last mayor under bill de blasio to actually protect violent criminals. when you bar the nypd who goes after violent criminals from going after ice. the only beneficiary to that policy is violent criminals. this is the policy that bob and i are going after this. is the policy, more than anything else, that has to stop. >> lawrence: councilman holden, looking it the numbers here, the criminal convictions of sanctuary -- in sanctuary cities and los angeles got over 54,000. in new york city you got about 50,000. do you think for the democrats that have supported this sanctuary policy that there may be some buyer's remorse? >> i think -- nobody saw this

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