president macron and attend a ---day commemoration. that's it for us. cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m., here is what's happening right now. live pictures from france. president trump and the first lady have just arrived at the r normandy american cemetery to mark the 75th anniversary of d-day. the president expected to speak later this hour, alongside french president e emmanuel ma macron. we will have live coverage throughout the morning. at home, a full-blown emergency at the u.s.-mexico border, the latest plea from agents, as the president says he is not backing down from history threat on mexico. leaders from both countries heading to 2340e another round f

talks today in the the us. from drones to artificial intel intelligence, amazon revealing new features. just in time for summer, uber's got a new way to help you skip those bumper to bumper nightmares on the road. it is thursday, it is june 6t june 6th, the anniversary of d-day and "fbn: a.m." starts right now. lauren: here is how your money is moving at 5:00 a.m. the dow aiming for four days of gains, juiced by hopes of a rate cut and progress with mexico on immigration. nasdaq is up 25. oil with an up arrow this morning, $52.19 a barrel. this is a day after falling to its january lows and entering bear market territory. let's take a look at european stocks on this day of remembrance for world leaders to

honor the troops who fought and died on d-day, 75 years ago. investors looking to the european central back today. will mario draggy keep his powder dry. the people's bank of china injecting money into the chinese economy. the shanghai composite is down overnight. cheryl: we would like to welcome you to "fbn: a.m.." good morning, i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: we are watching the live events underway in normandy, france. you're looking at live pictures of the normandy american cemetery. there are 9,388 service men that are buried there. president trump and the first lady joining other world leaders on the beaches of normandy. of course, to mark the 7 a fifth anniversary of -- 75th anniversary of the d-day landing. lauren: the president will give a speech today while touring the 50 plus miles of beaches there

and also an american military cemetery in france. president trump and the french president, emmanuel macron, will look out over omaha beach, the scene of the bloodiest fighting. 24 american troops died on that beach. cheryl: we're looking at live pictures of the arrival of everyone that is there. french president emmanuel macron, his wife will be there as well. they'll be walking through it. it's the honor corridor. you saw the picture a few moments ago. u.su.s. and french personnel are on-hand to meet the world leaders, walking through as the 75th commemoration ceremony gets underway in normandy. lauren: what's so remarkable -- we're looking at the president's sons right now. what's remarkable about the 75th anniversary is that many of these veterans who served are in their 80s and 90s. this might be the last time

they're all together at a an event like this. 16 million served in world war ii. just a few are still alive. cheryl: there is john bolton, along with the sons of president trump and also we should let you know, to give you a sense -- we'll be hearing from president trump later on in the hour. french president emmanuel macron will be making an address to the group as well. we should say that many u.s. servicemen that are still alive are there on the beaches of normandy. we continue to watch these live pictures from france. we've got a lot of news happening back in the united states. a full-blown emergency. border officials sounding the alarm after a record 133,000 migrants are arrested just in the month of may. that is the highest number in 13 years. lauren: it's a shocking statistic. it comes as the u.s. and mexico have failed to reach a security deal. griff jenkins live in washington, d.c. for us as the president is now warning of dire consequences. >> reporter: he is. good morning. while the president is overseas,

things in washington very busy. as you mentioned, the numbers are simply astounding from the border patrol, nearly 133,000 apprehensions, more than any monthly total in 13 years. if you dig in deeper and you add in those deemed inadmissible, the number is over 144,000, a 32% spike from just last month which was stuning in and of itself. these numbers are largely comprised of family units from central america, compared to this time last year that's a 463% increase. border pa l troll officials are sounding the alarm. they're truly at a loss for what the to do. >> we are in a full-blown emergency and i cannot say this stronger. the system is broken. we are well beyond capacity in all of our southwest border custodials facilities. this ongoing crisis has placed a tremendous strain on our limited resources and operational effectiveness. >> reporter: this comes as

mexico's foreign minister continues high level talks in washington, meeting with vice president pence, secretary of state mike pompeo. no deal yet. the conversation appears focused on the border. >> we don't discuss -- [ indiscernible ] the focus on migration and what mexico is doing or is proposing to the united states. >> reporter: speaking of tariffs, the president monitoring the talks, tweeting progress is being made but not nearly enough. add field goal no agreement is reached, tariffs at the 5% level will begin on monday with monthly increases. the higher the tariffs go, the higher number of companies that will move back to the usa. there are further signs that the president will face resistance from republican senators if he does indeed impose those tariffs on monday. >> i told him i thought it was a mistake. i think there's some other alternatives that we can pursue

to get our friends in mexico to understand that we've got a crisis. >> reporter: there were reports yesterday that there was yet another caravan of about 1,000 people crossing mexico's border heading north for the u.s. the president with a historic speech coming up shortly. he will return to the united states shortly to a crisis that is growing here. guys. cheryl: griff jenkins live in washington. griff, thank you. lauren: no deal so far with mention he co-and no deal for -- mexico and no deal for fiat chrysler. the automaker is with drawing the merger offer for renault. it would have created the world's third biggest automaker. fiat said the deal collapsed due to the political climate in france. france's budget minister said talks could resume some time in the future. t fiat chrysler shares are down 1% in the premarket.

cheryl: amazon unveiled a bunch of new futures which promised to change your shopping experience. lauren: fox news headlines 24/7's brett larson joins us now with everything amazon. we want to start with the drones. they're coming in soon. >> they're coming to get us. amazon's been talking about drones for a few years now. seems they've finally gotten the faa approval. you can see one of them taking off. this is how your stuff is going to be delivered. i'm curious to see how they're going to handle more of an urban environment where we already have skies that are crowded with things like skyscrapers. cheryl: new york. >> and like billboards and all this other stuff that could be distracting to the drones. amazon has said no, the drones are a aware of what's around them. they have the ability to avoid obstacles that are in their way which sounds like sky net is about to become self aware and drones are going to take over the world. it's the new way they're going to begin delivering packages. i think this is going to be great in rural areas where maybe

the post office isn't down the block, the post office is five or 10 or maybe 15 miles away where it's -- you can take that last mile with a drone. it's also going to be curious to see exactly how much weight these are going to be able to carry. that's always a concern. lauren: they say about five pounds now. we'll see. i want to do amazon part two with you right now. it's called style snap and it's creeping me out. >> we saw this technology in the fire phone that amazon announced several years ago, the ability for the camera to look at an object and tell you what it is. you could hold it up to, say, a can of soda and it would tell you, oh, that's a can of diet coke. in this instance you can hold it up to what a person is wearing and it is going to suggest what the outfit might be based on the fabric on the style. if you are walking down the street, i love your jacket, your purse, you will want to tell them what you're doing so you don't creep them out but can you take a picture of it and amazon

will say that's the do you knowd burke bag. cheryl: i love that. but also what's going on with alexa? >> alexa a is learning how to do more things which is a little creepy. look, we love to hate on alexa a. it's the virtual -- it is the most popular virtual system. cheryl: it is creepy. >> 75% of the market. they are adding more features to alexa, they want it more of a natural language interaction with it. instead of saying alexa, turn on the lights, alexa remind me to walk the dog in 20 minutes, you'll be able to have a conversation, more like alexa, turn on the lights and remind me to walk the dog. lauren: right now they are in regulatory crosshairs. >> they certainly are. cheryl: here are some other headlines we are watching for you this morning.

power back on at los angeles international airport after a frustrating outage overnight. 7 many travelers were grounded. even the traffic lights outside went dark. a glitch at a utility station is blamed for the outage. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez putting a costly price tag on her green new deal. she tells the hill it would cost at least $10 trillion. ocasio-cortez introduced the green new deal in february but didn't release a price tag estimate at that time. rahm emanuel is going to wall street. the former chicago mayor joining investment bank centerview partners. it was founded in 2006. it's become one of the most profitable investment banks on wall street. youtube is stepping up efforts to tackle hate speech.

the company says it will ban videos claiming that any group is superior to others to justify discrimination and segregation. the announcement comes as youtube faces criticism for how it handles extremeism and misinformation on its platform. uber is taking to the skies, uber elevate will begin offering helicopter rides on july 9th here in new york. the new service will take passengers between manhattan and kennedy airport. that is an 8 minute flight. each trip, $200. we should say other helicopter services are already offered in new york that do the same thing for a little more money. lauren: the price tag is not bad, considering driving there in traffic could cost you as much. as we commemorate the 75th anniversary of d-day, so is this world war ii veteran. this 97-year-old parachuted into normandy, recreating that today.

he is part of the 101st airborne divisions on this d-day. >> this is one of the closures for the jump. everything for the most part was completed. september this is a daylight jump -- except this is a daylight jump and that normandy jump in '44 was a nighttime jump. i didn't know where i was. i where i was here. we had the american flag flying be blow us. i couldn't see it. it probably was beautiful. lauren: the number of d-day survivors are continue are dwins he feels honored to represent them. cheryl: the s&p is up 7 and-a-half, nasdaq is up 24 and three quarters right now. vice president pence squaring off with mexican officials in dc again today. could they reach an agreement and fight off another trade fight? and once again you're looking at

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but something pretty dramatic could happen. we've told mexico that tariffs go on. and i mean it too. lauren: that was president trump speaking to reporters earlier this morning in shannon, ireland as u.s. and mexican officials meet for a second day of trade talks at the white house today. can a deal be reached in time to stave off tariffs on america's second largest trading partner that are set to go in effect monday. jonathan honing joins us now. >> good morning. lauren: do you think weeing see the tariffs on monday? >> certainly looks like it. the president suggested that they will in fact go into effect on monday. and i think that's one of the reasons why you saw such abrupt movement in the stock market after the tariffs were announced. think about the billions and billions of dollars not just in direct costs, it's estimated $28 billion in direct costs but in terms of the indirect costs, all the supply chains that are disrupted by these types of

tariffs. another private estimate said there could be as many at 400,000 jobs lost as a result of these mexico tariffs, particularly in retail and in fact some of the retail stocks like the gap, like macy's, like kohl's, they've been among the weakest as of late. all eyes are on vice president pence and the potential tariffs set to go in place on monday. the business community not very excited about it, i can promise you that. lauren: as you note, this is much more than tequila and avocados. it's also cars and it's retail. but what's phenomenal to me is that since the president with this shock announcement of the escalating tariffs on mexico, we've actually seen stocks come up, come up in a big way. is that more because of the fed having the market's back or do you think investors think the president is calling his bluff. >> we always say the market hates uncertainty. as you said, it was the shock. think about it, may, which was a terrible month for the stock market, it was headline after

headline about new tariffs and the trade war. so far this month in june, despite the threat of impending tariffs on monday, we haven't seen any new tweets from the president about new tariffs. i think that's one of the reasons why you've seen a little bit of stabilization but believe me, manufacturers big and small are keeping a close eye on this. there's an estimate that these tariffs could add $1,300 to the cost of the average u.s. automobile. for u.s. consumers in the coming years. this is going to have a big impact. the immediate impact might not be so apparent, even to market watchers like ourselves. tariffs are taxes. these are taxes on americans. i think that's why so many americans and market watchers are concerned. lauren: many republicans are even warning the president against this. do you think if he does go through with let's say the full 25%, if we don't get mexico to do what we want them to do on the crisis at the border, do you think this really hurts the economy in a big way, that it jeopardizes the president in 2020? >> well, you can just look back

to president bush, the first president bush's tariffs back in the early 2000s. those in fact cost steel jobs. those were tariffs particularly on imported steel and a aluminum. those cost steel jobs. a lot of the estimates are exactly the same thing occurring here at home. we're not just fighting a trade war with mexico. also with china, the president this morning alluding to potentially $300 billion more in tariffs. we talk about tariffs against china and mexico. keep in mind, those are taxes against american consumers. that's why i think the market is worried and certainly will have a detrimental impact on the economy even if the market doesn't fall today, tomorrow or monday when the tariffs come into place. lauren: jonathan, thank you very much. >> thank you, lauren. lauren: a reminder, we are awaiting the president's speech in normandy, france on this anniversary of d-day, 75 years later. cheryl: let's take a quick look at futures before we head back to france and the live pictures. right now futures are pointing

higher, 76 on the dow, s&p up 8 and three quarters, nasdaq up 28 and-a-half. couple things we're following. it is a bipartisan issue everyone should agree on, infrastructure. yet recent talks broke down before the meeting even started whavment the latest fight on capitol hill means for american jobs. now let's take you back to those live pictures in france. you're looking at live pictures from normandy, omaha beach. that is marine one, the president and first lady have just landed. things are a little behind schedule, we do want to he let you know. there are going to be several events taking place this morning to commemorate the d-day landing, 150,000 allied troops, five beaches. this was the beginning of the end fo for adolf hitler. again, we are watching these live pictures and we're waiting on the ceremonies to begin. president trump set to speak. he's going to be commemorating today's incredible moment in

history, the 75th anniversary on d-day. we've got live coverage coming up. we're monitoring these pictures out of france. you're watching "fbn: a.m.."

lauren: let's take you to normandy, france, where you can see president emmanuel macron and his wife, bridgette, first lady melania trump and president trump, looks like they'll be walking to the stage, both world leaders set to make speechers, macron first and then president trump most likely in this hour as we remember the 75th anniversary basically the day the tide turned for the world

war ii there in normandy, france. about 50 plus miles of beautiful beaches, beautiful today but quite hon testilest -- quite hoa killing field 75 years ago. cheryl: they're walking through the honor corridor. bridgette macron and melania trump are walking through. they're running behind schedule. they're going to be walking through the honor corridor and then the program will begin. many u.s. veterans, world war ii veterans that are now in their late 80s and 90s are in the audience, waiting for the ceremony to begin. there will be a playing of the french national anthem, the u.s. national anthem, there will be aan invocation as well from the main chaplain of the u.s. army. there will be welcoming remarks from other u.s. military personnel before we get to those

comments coming from french president emmanuel macron ahead of president trump's comments. lauren: imagine if we didn't have d-day 75 years ago, which was the beginning of the end of world war ii, what would europe look like today. cheryl: it was the beginning of the end of adolf hitler. world war ii started in 1939. it didn't end until 1945. during that time it wasn't just the events happening in europe. the japanese attacked us in 1941, the pearl harbor attack. this is an intense moment for our country. i keep hearing the phrase over and over that freedom isn't free. i think these events and these ceremonies we've been watching remind us of the sacrifice that the greatest generation, for me my grandfather who served in world war ii, that they made for us to make sure we have the lives we enjoy today. europe has been free ever since. lauren: as ronald reagan said, these were heros who helped end

a war. at the cemetery there, more than 9,009,000 graves, you can see wn they show the white marble crosses, it's this beautiful setting. there you have president trump walking to the stage, shaking hands. look at the old veterans. they're in their 80s and 90s. this might be the last major anniversary that we see for these veterans. cheryl: if you were 18 then, today you'd be 93 now. there are less -- there were 16 million servicemen that served and women, i'm sorry, during world war ii. but now less than 500,000 are alive and the last of them expected to no longer be with us by 2024. what i think is interested, we should add that as we watch president macron, there are many french world war ii veterans that are there's as well. the beaches of normandy, there were five beaches that were landed upon by allied forces. lauren: omaha, utah, gold, judo, sword, those are the code

names. if you think of the precision, the leadership -- this was before excel spreadsheets and technology, that they had to coordinate this attack, the largest sea borne invasion that we know, it was orchestrated with such precision by the allied forces. cheryl: the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions, the paratroopers, the glider troops that landed on the beaches on this day, 75 years ago. that d-day of course, those operations began before dawn, really overnight. the president was in along the beaches of england yesterday and of course that was really the launching point,s especially for british but all allied forces. we had australian troops, canadian troops, french, u.k. and of course americans. if you look at those paratroopers and we saw -- you mentioned the story earlier of the world war ii veteran that came down. lauren: 97 years old. cheryl: 97 years old. martha mccallum was talking to him yesterday. there were 23,000 paratroopers and glider troops that landed on

these beaches in the dark of night. can you imagine that? lauren: under enemy fire as well. all the food and the medicine that they had to deliver ahead of time before this invasion and how they even tried to trick the germans into thinking had that this wouldn't be the attack that would eventually be orchestrated and queen elizabeth, because this all started with the president's state visit to the u.k., she said she thought the 60th anniversary of d-day would be the last major one that she would see but here we are, 15 years after that. cheryl: this is the normandy american cemetery. if you're just joining us, we're coming up on 5:30 a.m. eastern on "fbn: a.m.." we're watching these live pictures of really what is a historic day, as we remember the sacrifices that our american military men and women made during world war ii to ensure that we are free, freedom is not free. we keep saying that this morning. but there's going to be a series of live events happening as we watch these live pictures as the

president is going to be speaking. first we're going to hear from french president emmanuel macron. of course we have had a week of pomp and circumstance. we should remind our viewers that trade has been a major issue for these world leaders and especially the issue of huawei. we expect a side meeting between macron and president trump. they're going to be talking about huawei because the french are not putting a stuff stance on that company. we're got to protect our networks, talking about the securities and freedoms we enjoy. mike pompeo says the freedoms are under pressure and under threat from the chinese. there is going to be some politics today as well. lauren: there's a friendship, a nice relationship between emmanuel macron, the president of france, and trump. you saw them together, shaking hands. much of today will be apolitical, in commemoration, in honor of d-day. as the president was going from ireland to france, as he was boarding marine one, he did make

comments on mexican tariffs and some of the other very much political issues that we are facing. cheryl: as the ceremony continues, we'll keep monitoring these live events. we will take president trump's remarks live as he begins speaking. we want to he get to something else this morning. we want to talk about what's happening with the nation's roads and bridges. it is no secret that the infrastructure in our country is crumbling. the latest effort in washington to do something about the chronic problem has ended in failure. president trump walked out on a meeting with house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer last month. would an infrastructure bill produce jobs we need here in america? let's bring in ben bruback, vice president of regulatory labor and state affairs. good morning. i apologize if we have to break in for any coverage of the president as he is set to speak in france. we talk about freedom not being

free. our infrastructure in this country is crumbling over the decades that we've seen it really built up after world war ii. and now you say that this would bring american jobs to our country. how many, do you think? >> well, unfortunately the infrastructure bill is dead as you said and the real losers are the american people. we've got roads and bridges and ports in disrepair. we've got a $2.610 trillion year infrastructure deficit on top of what we spend on infrastructure every year. we know that about for every $1 billion we invest in infrastructure creates 6300 jobs. so do the math. certainly any infrastructure investment will be welcome. it's a safety issue. americanss want a reliable, safe infrastructure and the real question is where do we go from here. cheryl: let's go back in history remember when president obama was touting, trying to sell to the american people and to the republicans his infrastructure spending bill and many say that that act actually wasn't effective in hiring. there was a bridge in new york,

the alexander hamilton bridge, we found out later on it was actually a chinese engineering firm that was hired to oversee the repairs on that bridge. we've seen the same thing happen -- we did see the same thing happen in california with the bay bridge in san francisco. it comes down to cost. if an american worker is too expensive, states are going to look elsewhere for funding -- excuse me, for projects. >> yeah, absolutely. states are certainly going to be taking the lead on infrastructure as a result of washington's failure to come up with a comprehensive plan. we've seen a number of states entertain increasing the gas tax, for example, finding other revenue streams, and looking to public/private partnerships. we've seen some states looking to ensure fair and open competition, which we could see at the federal level to. the governor from texas signed a bill that would ensure fair and open competition. it's the 25th state to do so. we could see president trump do

something like that in d.c. on federally assisted projects through an executive order, through deregulatory action. cheryl: i think you might have a great point here, you say it should be up to the states. it seems that if over the years if you study how infrastructure spending has been allocated, it seems like there's more waste at the federal level than at the state level. i go back to that california example of the bay bridge. they actually rejected federal funding for infrastructure because it was just cheaper to go the overseas route which the federal government would not allow them to do. >> the federal government, when you get money for a state and local project, there's a lot of red tape that goes along with that. there are arguments state and local procurement officers have less red tape and get projects going quicker. it's not a perfect and efficient system. we'll find states and localities finding more revenue and doing public/private partnerships. cheryl: how do we make sure

that if infrastructure is approved, it may not be until after the next election, but if infrastructure is approved how do we make sure that promises are actually delivered on? how do we make sure american jobs are created? >> there's got to be a bu bipartisan solution. the other issue we have to deal with, which our association is working on, is the skilled labor shortage. we've got a 440,000 shortage of skilled labor right now in the industry. if we were to add another trillion or $2 trillion over 10 years, we've got to figure out how to find the skilled labor to build those projects and rebuild america. that's a big threat. all of our members are saying that's the number one issue right now is finding the skilled labor. i think technology and other innovations are going to fill that gap. but it's still a very big pressing issue which affects our schools, our technical colleges and the entire business community unfortunately. cheryl: thank you for being here. it's an important topic. i know we need to see america's

roads and bridges fixed. we hope it happens soon. thank you very much. lauren: here are other headlines making news this morning. democratic presidential candidate john delaney standing up to congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she recently told him to drop out of the race because of his stance on healthcare. but delaney says he's not going anywhere. >> what do you have to say to aoc? she wants you out of the race? >> i've never sashayed out of anything in my life. i stand and fight and do what i believe is right. what i said in san francisco, i truly believe. i think every american should have healthcare as a basic human right. i think it's smart economic policy. i think the medicare for all proposal which is becoming this pureity test in the democratic party is the wrong way forward. i think it's crazy that becoming this intolerant party where we can't have a battle of ideas. lauren: delaney offered to debate ooc but she declined. investigators are looking into whether the former usc director,

pat heyden was involved in the college admission scene. investigators are examining his relationship to rick singer, the mastermind behind the scam. the journal said heyden connected singer to a former official in the athletic director at usc who has been charged in the cheating case. heydenis issued a statement denying any wrong doing. an actor in aladdin said a defect caused him to lose control of his model 3 and crash into a tree the day after he bought it. the lawsuit includes photos of the wrecked car. tesla issued warnings about similar warnings in the past. meteorologists at the national weather service had to take a double-take. what looked like a massive storm system on their radar turned out to be a whole bunch of lady bugs. it's not known what type were

causing the phenomenon. the los angeles times are reporting one type, the convergent lady beatle, migrates to higher elevations in the early summer to find food. so now you know. cheryl: let's take a quick look at your futures before we head to break right now. ddow up 81 inthe premarket, nas. straight ahead, we're monitoring live pictures coming out of normandy, france, omaha beach to be more specific. you're looking at live pictures as the ceremony gets underway. they just finished the invocation with the chaplain from the u.s. army. you're hearing from colonel timothy miller. he spoke and then we'll be listening to president trump. we'll bring you those live remarks when we get them and there of course is that picture of our heros in the gray. all right. we are honoring the brave soldiers who fought in normandy and the beaches there and we're going to be monitoring all of these live pictures for you.

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lauren: let's get you caught up on global market action. dow aiming for four days of gains, juiced by hopes of a rate tuck and progress with mexico today as the tariffs are set to take effect on monday. the nasdaq futures gaining 32 or just about half of 1% this morning. oil has an up arrow, $52.05, a gain of 37-cents. yesterday crude fell to the january lows and at one point in if bear market down 20% from a recent high. let's take a look at europe, as they honor those who fought and died on d-day, 75 years ago. up arrows across the board. two-thirds percent gains in london, in paris and in frankfurt this morning. investors looking to the european central bank.

will mario dragi keep his powder dry. we saw the people's bank of china injecting $72 billion in the chinese economy. cheryl: we are awaiting president trump. he will be giving a speech at the d-day anniversary commemoration in normandy, france. the president going to pay homage to the tens of thousands of allied forces who faced the germans head-on. lauren: joining us now is james carafano of the heritage foundation. i want to point out you are a retired army lieutenant colonel and the author of this book right here, after d-day, operation cobra and the normandy breakout. so good to have you, james. >> thank you, guys. just to be here live for this historic event, it's really something. so thanks so much. this is something never to forget. lauren: absolutely. tell me about your book, operation cobra. what exactly was that and its impact on world war ii? >> it's really interesting, is that everybody remembers getting

ashore on d-day which, look, no question, that was an incredible moment in military history. but once the allies got on-shore, they kind of landed in the wrong place. the french farm country, instead offenses, they had high berms of dirt that bound their fields. those are basically fortifications for the germans to hide behind. the allies bogged down in what looked more like trench warfare from 1917 than what we think of in world war ii. for six weeks we were bottled up in normandy until omar bradley organized what was called operation cobra, which was the breakout. so we brought in a whole bunch of bombers. we bombed the heck out of the german lines. we blew a hole in the german lines and that started patton on the way to britney and allowed the allies to pivot and head towards paris and that was the beginning of the end because that was the real second front that took the pressure off the

russians and started us on our way to berlin. cheryl: the beginning of the end of adolf hitler during that time. as we watch live pictures, we're watching president trump and his wife melania, the first lady, here we are today and our country still is facing different national security threats, whether it's the immigration crisis at the southern border, whether it's the chinese espionage threats we're facing, whether it's from a company like huawei, whether it's the chinese government, whether it's kim jong un in north korea. we still are a free nation but is our freedom under threat right now, james? >> you know, the one great lesson of d-day -- we have this trite saying, politics ends at american shores, that we have this bipartisanship and unity on foreign policy and d-day is the one constant reminder, when americans pull themselves together, we can accomplish incredible feats. contrast with that what's going on at the border, where you have

two political parties, one preventing you from dealing with the security issue. lauren: the reception the president is receiving in europe, in the u.k. and in france, as the president and president macron process down that red carpet just moments ago, both sides flanked by flags of both countries, they paused, they shook hands with a number of the veterans and people are -- it was heard by one of the poolers, which is someone in the press, which someone said hey, you're our president too, come on up this way. what is the reception the president is receiving? >> well, i think that's a really important question because a lot of focus on the protests in britain and missing the point that there are actually a lot of people in britain that look at trump and they say that's the kind of leader we want. and i think many people broadly recognize that the united states

remains a powerful force for good in the world and it's moments like this when we put our politics aside and take the -- we don't look at the trump at our heads, we look at the president of the united states and what the united states can do and all of a sudden our demeanor or attitude changes and we recognize america for what it is, which is a tremendous force for good in the world. lauren: james carafano, thank you very much. >> you bet. lauren: democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders attending the annual walmart shareholders meeting, pressing the company to raise wage for its workers. cheryl: we have jeff flock in rogers, arkansas with the details. >> reporter: bernie sanders came to arkansas and the world did not come to an end. shareholders meeting, though, held behind me here in rogers did after bernie sanders made his case and walmart made its case. sanders for putting walmart associates on the board and paying them $15 an hour, at least everybody $15 an hour,

sanders saying the walton family and its $170 billion in assets can afford it. >> this company owned by the wealthiest family in america can pay 15 bucks an hour. the country is watching. the country is so tired of this massive level of income and wealth inequality where the people on top make billions and billions and working people struggle. >> reporter: two arkansas senators, one current, one former, greeted bernie sanders, folks that he served with in the senate, saying that walmart is a very good corporate citizen, pointing out all the things that walmart does for its workers as well as for this state, like pay heavy taxes. some companies escape paying corporate taxes. the senators point out that federal corporate taxes paid by walmart total more than $3 billion a year. pay troll taxes, more than $12 billion. and property taxes and state and

local taxes, another $2 billion. and a bit of a surprise, ceo of walmart, doug mac doug mcmillone supports an increase in the minimum wage. >> it's clear by our actions and those of other companies that the federal minimum wage is lagging behind. $7.25 is too low. it's time for congress to put a thoughtful plan in place to increase the minimum wage. >> reporter: the federal minimum wage being $7.25, walmart already paying new associates $11 an hour. i'm not sure what the impact of that would be but interesting nonetheless. bernie sanders goes to arkansas. cheryl: jeff flock, thank you, jeff. lauren: again, markets looking pretty good today, dow up 65 in the premarket, s&p tacking on 7, nasdaq 26. let's take you back to normandy, france. these are live pictures where president trump has joined the french president macron who is speaking right now, to commemorate the sacrifices made in the fight for freedom, the

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cheryl: once again, you are looking at live pictures from normandy, france. french president macron is speaking right now. after this, president trump is going to be speaking p. they are commemorating the 75th anniversary of d-day. let's bring in washington examiner commentary writer. good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: this trip has put a big spotlight on president trump on

the world stage. how do you think he's done so far? >> well, president trump has been well-dehaiive behaved and l received. he's projected a statesman image that many of his detractors think he's incapable of. why he visited the u.k. for the state visit is to obviously leverage better trade deals amidst the brexit talks that seem to have been deteriorated and obviously left to theresa may's inevitable departure. and he's not going to go through the e.u. to obviously go through a trade deal. he would rather deal with the u.k. specifically and by and large it seems to be at this moment successful. lauren: he's gotten a relatively warm reception despite some of the protests and despite what happened with the london mayor, that spat with him. but the president has gotten a nice welcome, particularly in

the u.k. at the same time, he has met and he endorsed some leaders that would be replacing theresa may. how does that play out? >> well, obviously many britains don't appreciate president trump sort of trying to tip the scales here in terms of, say, advocating for borris johnson who is the former foreign secretary under theresa may's prime ministership, to be the next prime minister. and obviously borris johnson, who has been a strong advocate and proponent of a hard brexit as opposed to a soft brexit which may has been advocating for, would put britain in a better position to deal with the united states and getting a better trade deal and that seems to be the objective that both of those leaders share. cheryl: he's going to be having a side meeting, we're told from our white house producers, with emmanuel macron today.

emmanuel macron somewhat weakened as his position because of the parrel parliamentary elections in there e.u. >> macron has a lot of problems within his own country and trump actually has surging popularity in france, despite it's only 19%. it was at 7% in 2017. macron is around 30%. so it would actually benefit both macron and trump if they actually worked together here. lauren: thank you for joining us on this historic day. >> thank you for having me. cheryl: this thursday we are watching how your money is doing. right now futures are higher in the premarket, dow up 64, s&p up 7 and a quarter, nasdaq up 25 and three quarters. we'll be back in just a moment. we're going to have more live coverage normandy, france. we're waiting for president trump to deliver remarks at the ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of d-day. this is the couple who wanted to get away

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lauren: let's take a look at market action overnight. uk, the dow powering more than 200 points in the upside, up again by 62 points, looking at 4 days of gain, we have tariffs and hopes of a rate cut by the federal reserve and that's market is moving between that. green arrows for u.s. markets.

oil with green arrow, $52 and change, day after falling in lowest levels since january or 51.87 a barrel. day of remembrance for world leaders as we honor 70th anniversary of d-day. mario droghi will announce more stimulus to the markets. in asia markets green arrows, shanghai composite big loser here. cheryl: we continue to follow events on normandy, france, we send it over to mornings with maria. maria: good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, thursday june 6th, top stories before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, we are looking at live picture right now at

normandy france as we wait for president trump's address. the president expected to speak momentarily. tariffs can be raised by $300 billion, yet to be taxed which is final import coming from u.s. to china. tariffs are set to go into effect there this monday. no deal, fiat chrysler, no change. mornings with maria begins right now. breaking news, we are waiting for president trump's remarks remembering the 75th anniversary